单词 | exemption |
释义 | exemptionn. The action of exempting; the state of being exempted. a. The action of taking out or away; the state of being taken out or away. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away withdrawingc1315 remuingc1330 withdraught1340 taking awaya1382 discharginga1398 removinga1398 remotiona1425 subtraction?a1425 amovingc1443 taking offc1450 abstraction1467 way-taking1479 substracting1549 conveyance1567 sublation1567 remove1589 removal1595 exemption1598 substraction1601 supporting1608 amovement1618 subductiona1620 conveying1621 amolitiona1641 withdrawment1640 subducting1645 suffuration1651 summotion1653 amoval1657 withdraw1720 withdrawal1838 removement1846 1598 S. Rowlands Betraying of Christ 44 By death of Christ, the Law was in exemption. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. iii. 42 Adumbration or Transparency, is a cleere exemption of the substance of the Charge. b. Exception, exclusion from an enumeration, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [noun] > exception exceptionc1385 out-taking1442 exemptiona1538 exceptinga1626 exceptation1662 a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 93 Thys exemptyon..ys to be gyven to the dygnyte of presthod. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 70 The Cardinals should be chosen out of all the Provinces..without exemption of any. 2. a. The action of exempting, or the state of being exempted (see exempt v. 4) from a liability, obligation, penalty, law, or authority; freeing, freedom; an instance of the same, an immunity. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [noun] freedomeOE freeshiplOE exemptionc1380 immunityc1384 unpunishmentc1450 impunity1532 faculty1533 licence1551 vacuitya1620 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 93 He schal geten a priueilege or exempcion..for his gold sent & spendid at rome. 1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII c. 5 This acte of adnullacion..of exempcions of payment or colleccion of dismes. 1578 Gude & Godl. Ball. 77 Our tungis hes ane exemptioun. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxi. 109 We take Liberty, for an exemption from Lawes. 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon iv. 189 King Henries exemption of himself from all spirituall jurisdiction. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 115 Thy great Father..requires Glory from..all men.., no exemption . View more context for this quotation a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1734) II. 158 An exemption for twenty one years from all Taxes and Customs. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 20 Genius..Pleads Exemption from the Laws of Sense. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) A writ of exemption, or of ease, to be quit of serving on juries, and all public service. 1825 J. Bentham Rationale Reward 14 An exemption from punishment already incurred, is a pardon. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §2. 172 Some [boroughs] bought charters of exemption from the troublesome privilege [of sending burgesses to parliament]. b. spec. ‘A privilege by which persons or places are withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the ordinary and immediately subjected to the Holy See’ ( Catholic Dict. 1885). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] > see of > part outside bishop's jurisdiction > privilege establishing exemptiona1464 a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 130 There was þe prouincial of þe ordre alegging for him her exempcion. 1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. vi. 144 He complains..of the exemption of Abbats from their Bishops. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) (at cited word) The first exemptions granted to monks were only for the liberty of electing their abbot, independently on the bishop. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 7 He protests especially against exemptions. 3. Freedom, immunity from a defect, disadvantage, or weakness. ΚΠ a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Angl. (1671) i. 53 Humane frailty from which the holiest and most Learned men cannot plead Exemption. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 105. ¶5 The Men who value themselves most on their Exemption from the Pedantry of Colleges. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 404 Even age itself seems privileged in them With clear exemption from its own defects. 1842 H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. I. 7 A tolerable exemption from faults..will generally be their highest merit. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxiv. 199 Water free from ice; the exemption being due to the island..acting as a barrier. 1884 Q. Rev. Apr. 350 A singular exemption from the ferocious forms of life. ΚΠ a1610 J. Healey in tr. Theophrastus Characters To Rdr., in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) Pomœrium is a certaine space about the walls of the City or Towne..where 'tis not lawfull to plough, build houses, or inhabite..termed the territorie, or exemption. 5. attributive (sense 2). ΚΠ 1898 Daily News 5 July 2/5 Under the exemption clauses of the Acts. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 2/3 Exemption certificates. 1909 Englishwoman Apr. 286 The Home Secretary's withdrawal of the Exemption Order. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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